Norman Cone http://jta.org/user/profile/66350 en-us rcsillag@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I'm really not interested anymore in Judge Goldstones motivations. He new very well what has been expected from him, when he accepted the job from the corrupt, anti-Israeli organization and he delivered exactly what they expected. To whine know , he "didn't mean it", is too little, to late. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Alexander Baldal, you are not a Khazar, but an anti-Semitic political moron. The Goldstone report is a nail in the "peace process" and the hopes of the Islamic Khazars called "Palestinians" for a state of their own.Sure the Law is as you cited. Hamas should have known that before it fired 8000 rockets on Israeli civilians. And you look for some Nazi blog to post there your hogwash and stay the hell out of Jewish sites. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 David, you better don't classify the stupids, just look in the mirror. As far as Walt and Mearsheimer's book is concerned, Bin Laden didn't make a serious investment. I got the book for $1.90 at Amazon.com and he could get it too for the same price. It's not worth a cent more... 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Mr.David Ehrens, you are clearly not just a critic of Israel, but a Jew hater and anti-Semite. What I don't understand is, why you are commenting on a Jewish website about Jewish affairs and why JTA is publishing your (quite stupid) comments. STFU and find another forum, there are enough Nazi blogs around, where they would welcome you. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 If somebody is mentioning "shmucks", look at Carter, the Elders and their friends a la David Ehrens. Carter was and remained a Jew-hater and Abrams is one of the most decent men and a real friend of Israel. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 THE SOURCE OF OBAMA'S ANTI-ISRAEL POLICY BY E.W. Jackson Sr. E. W. Jackson is Bishop of Exodus Faith Ministries, an author and retired attorney. June 16, 2009 Like Obama, I am a graduate of Harvard Law School. I too have Muslims in my family. I am black, and I was once a leftist Democrat. Since our backgrounds are somewhat similar, I perceive something in Obama's policy toward Israel which people without that background may not see. All my life I have witnessed a strain of anti-Semitism in the black community. It has been fuelled by the rise of the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan, but it predates that organization. We heard it in Jesse Jackson's "HYMIE town" remark years ago during his presidential campaign. We heard it most recently in Jeremiah Wright's remark about "them Jews" not allowing Obama to speak with him. I hear it from my own Muslim family members who see the problem in the Middle East as a "Jew" problem. Growing up in a small, predominantly black urban community in Pennsylvania, I heard the comments about Jewish shop owners. They were "greedy cheaters" who could not be trusted, according to my family and others in the neighborhood. I was too young to understand what it means to be Jewish, or know that I was hearing anti-Semitism. These people seemed nice enough to me, but others said they were "evil". Sadly, this bigotry has yet to be eradicated from the black community. In Chicago, the anti-Jewish sentiment among black people is even more pronounced because of the direct influence of Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam. Most African Americans are not followers of "The Nation", but many have a quiet respect for its leader because, they say, "he speaks the truth" and "stands up for the black man". What they mean of course is that he viciously attacks the perceived "enemies" of the black community - white people and Jews. Even some self-described Christians buy into his demagoguery. The question is whether Obama, given his Muslim roots and experience in Farrakhan's Chicago, shares this antipathy for Israel and Jewish people. Is there any evidence that he does? First, the President was taught for twenty years by a virulent anti-Semite, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. In the black community it is called "sitting under". You don't merely attend a church, you "sit under" a Pastor to be taught and mentored by him. Obama "sat under" Wright for a very long time. He was comfortable enough with Farrakhan - Wright's friend - to attend and help organize his "Million Man March". I was on C-Span the morning of the march arguing that we must never legitimize a racist and anti-Semite, no matter what "good" he claims to be doing. Yet a future President was in the crowd giving Farrakhan his enthusiastic support. The classic left wing view is that Israel is the oppressive occupier, and the Palestinians are Israel's victims. Obama is clearly sympathetic to this view. In speaking to the "Muslim World," he did not address the widespread Islamic hatred of Jews. Instead he attacked Israel over the growth of West Bank settlements. Surely he knows that settlements are not the crux of the problem. The absolute refusal of the Palestinians to accept Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state is the insurmountable obstacle. That's where the pressure needs to be placed, but this President sees it differently. He also made the preposterous comparison of the Holocaust to Palestinian "dislocation". Obama clearly has Muslim sensibilities. He sees the world and Israel from a Muslim perspective. His construct of "The Muslim World" is unique in modern diplomacy. It is said that only The Muslim Brotherhood and other radical elements of the religion use that concept. It is a call to unify Muslims around the world. It is rather odd to hear an American President use it. In doing so he reveals more about his thinking than he intends. The dramatic policy reversal of joining the unrelentingly anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and pro-Islamic UN Human Rights Council is in keeping with the President's truest - albeit undeclared - sensibilities Those who are paying attention and thinking about these issues do not find it unreasonable to consider that President Obama is influenced by a strain of anti-Semitism picked up from the black community, his leftist friends and colleagues, his Muslim associations and his long period of mentorship under Jeremiah Wright. If this conclusion is accurate, Israel has some dark days ahead. For the first time in her history, she may find the President of the United States siding with her enemies. Those who believe, as I do, that Israel must be protected had better be ready for the fight. We are. NEVER AGAIN! E. W. Jackson is Bishop of Exodus Faith Ministries, an author and retired attorney. Email: bshpjksn@gmail.com 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I'm really glad to be an Independent and not a Democrat. The idea to be represented by people who find nothing offensive to pick Mary Robinson for the Presidential Medal of Freedom and "are still firmly behind Obama on the MIddle East and other matters" is for me so absurd and disgusting , that I find Mr.Harris totally out of touch with the Jewish public. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I think the time has come to review the postings here before publishing them. JTA is not the right place for Jew-haters and other bozos. The Arabs and their friends would like to displace the Jews living in the "settlements" on the Westbank. But where should they be resettled ? The aerea between Haifa and Ashkelon, Gedera and Hadera is overcrowded and expensive. Jews must be moving in the Galilea and the Negev - if Arabs like it or not. There are almost exclusively religious Jewish neighborhoods in New York, in Montreal, in L.A. and elsewhere. Why is a religious Jewish neighborhood in Akko or Jaffa a problem? Sooner or later will the Arabs learn to live with it and buy their own plots of land where they can build housing exclusively for religious Muslims or Christians. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 What's the surprise ? There were Jews who would have been members of the Nazi-Party, if they would have been accepted. There were Jews serving in the Ghetto-Judenrats and one Jew was just elected to the Revolutionary Council of the Fatah-Terrorgroup. There are Chomskys and Finkelsteins not just in America, but in Israel too. All of them are proud members or sympathizers of J Street. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Even before this news item was published by JTA did Yevgeni Bistrizky receive a new apartment and is not sleeping in the park anymore... 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Tamir speaks neither for American Jews nor for anybody else with the exception of blind Netanyahu haters on Israels left. Should he not resign voluntarily, Foreign Minister Lieberman should fire him immediately or give him a desk job to take care of garbage disposal in the offices. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Cheryl, you have to learn to read. Nowhere is written that Engel is a member of AIPAC. He joined AIPAC and others to protest the choice of Mary Robinson for a Presidential Medal of Honor, he didn't join as a member of AIPAC. I have no idea if he is a member , but if he is, it has nothing to do with being a Democrat or a Republican. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Felicia Langer was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in Israel and as such would specialize her law office in representing Arabs in court. She sent her only son from Israel to schools in East Germany. Now she pretends, she was Communist Party member only because it was a meeting place for Jews and Arabs. Mrs.Langer (and I know her personally) is a lier and a passionate hater of Israel. If I were Israels foreign minister, I would in protest against the award for Mrs.Langer recall the Israeli ambassador in Berlin for "consultations", should this award not be revoked in the coming days. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Who will be the guest of honor at the J Street convention ? Nasrallah ? Kuntar? Meshal or Abu Mazen ? Before I forget: Ahmadinejad comes to the UN General Assembly in New York, so send him an invitation. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 If Rep.Wexler doesn't agree with the following characterization of Obama's policy in Ari Shavit's Haaretz-article, then please give me a better one : "Seven months after Barack Obama's victory in the presidential election, it is still not clear what the United States' new strategic goal is: halting Iran's nuclear program, or learning to live with a nuclear Iran? It is also not clear what the new U.S. vision for the Middle East is: a partial but realistic peace, or a full but fictitious peace? It is not clear whether Obama's United States plans to isolate Middle Eastern extremists or encourage them. It is not clear what its attitude toward Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran will be. Nor is it clear whether it will leave Iraq victorious or defeated. But, on one issue, there is no doubt. In everything related to Israel, Obama's United States has adopted a tough-love strategy." 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I'm reading the papers, I'm following the news and what I read and hear is always about Israeli settlements. If the Obama administration is making "equal if not greater demands on the Arab world", it remains a deep secret, because nobody speaks or writes about it but Rep. Wexler and - with all due respect - he has lost all credibility in regard of President Obama. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I sincerely hope that Jewish donors will now stop all donations to Columbia U., the stage of Ahmadinejad's oral diarrhea and Joseph Massad as tenured professor. There are certainly better places for their money. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 The main problem, as I see it, is the fact, that we are taking the kind of M.J. Rosenberg too seriously. He is a leading member of the IPF, an organization which constist of an office, some fundraisers and a couple of leftist, peacenik commentators, calling themselves "analysts". Who really cares about what M.J.Rosenberg thinks or writes ? Mr.Soros, I presume. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I don't deny the fact, that I hate Tony Judt more than I hate Ahmadinejad. Iran's mad man wishes to eradicate israel and he says it clear and loud. Judt wishes to eradicate Israel, because it is too "postmodern" for his leftist taste and starts his "explanation" with memories of his short life in a kibbutz. This self-hating Jewish enemy of a Jewish state makes me sick. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Fernando, can you explain why there are no Jewish students and faculty rioting and attacking Arab students after Hezbollah attacks on Sunnis and Maronites in Beirut, Hamas rockets on Israeli cities and villages, after murder and mayhem in Iraq and Islamic extremism on all five continents of the planet ? Arab anti-Semites attacked Jews long before Israel was born, Mufti el-Husseini organized Moslem SS-units and asked Hitler to kill Jews in Palestine and elsewhere long before there was a problem with settlements or even Jews living anywhere on the Westbank and Gaza. No, peace is not in Israels hands, it is in the hands of Arabs and Islamists, in Ramallah and Gaza as in Montreal and Toronto. So stop blaiming Israel for your own stupidity. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 No, you don't have what to apologize for, Malcolm. I'm one of many,many American Jews seriously concerned about Obama's Middle East policy. It has nothing to do with Newsmax or the speech in Cairo. It's not a coincidence, that the once so Israel friendly Senator Hillary is now a quite open critic of Israel you could call Shrillary. The major Jewish Organizations should sooner than later voice their opinion about the administration's Israel policy and about the missing American voice regarding the latest developments in Iran , if they don't want to loose the rest of their credibility and the support of the Jewish public. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Let me tell you, that I and countless other Jews in this country, don't consider you and your "fellow travelers in Americans for Peace Now, J Street, Israel Policy Forum, Ameinu and Brit Tzedek v’Shalom" as members of the family, recalcitrant or otherwise. Isi Leibler was right to call you and those fringe groups "fake Zionists". Whom do you call "almost defenseless occupied people" ? Hamas in Gaza ? Or Fateh in the West Bank, even as Abbas just a short while ago mentioned, how normal life they are enjoying? I'm not a fan of settlement expansions and even less the hilltop-fanatics, but I certainly wouldn't like to tell my son not to add a room to his house for my grandson. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 "All Canadians should be proud that our government has told George Galloway that he is not welcome in our country." said Rabbi Reuven Bulka, CJC's co-president and I fully agree. I'm not at all proud of my own government, which let this hatemonger tour the US. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Please don't call J-Street a "pro-Israel lobby". It's anything but pro-Israel. This is a leftist group with a Walt/Maersheimer ideology. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 I would gladly recognize Hamas if it were brave enough to subject Roger Cohen to the same procedures it would love to subject Israel. This self hating Jew would be my prefered object of that king of procedure. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Senator Gillibrand has heavy learning to do. And she must not forget that next time it's not the Governor, but the voter who will decide if she stays in the Senate. In her shoes I would be a little more cautious. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 We should not forget this. I'll start to organize a ABA group immediately, to be ready for the next election. ABA means Anybody but Ackerman. I hope that Jewish voters will support me. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00 Toby M. you can send in your "nice big donation" to support the "Students for Justice in Palestine" at the Hampshire College.. Some Jewish Kapos cooperated even with the SS murderers in Auschwitz. They would have loved you. 2009-11-20T;16:30:00-05:00